FreeOrion

Another point for consideration : What advantage does being the defender of a well developed system confer? e.g. some or all of the following: :arrow: Starbases providing additonal or extra large scanning arrays :arrow: Being in orbit around a planet or star, or hiding in an asteroid field or dust c...

Its about colonising the galaxy and the limitations that real world physics imposes. Good stuff.

http://strangepaths.com/interstellar-ark/2007/02/14/en/

Youre probably right - i think the main problem was the way it was set up with civ3 and its rigid tech tree - not having access to a certain resource at the right time could just kill your game.

You still have to code the AI so that it can make the correct choices. Not so easy to do when youve just coded the game - how do you know which techs are the really useful ones to have? The optimum choices usually dont become apparent until people have been playing it to death - i.e. quite a while a...

That IS a good point. But one thing I found was that what is "essential" is largely defined by your play style. Since I liked to have few ships I found it necessary to have Heavy armor and reinforced hull on all my ships. Thats not "essential" - that's 'preferred'. Essential wou...

double post, but this moo2 creative/uncreative thing reminded me of something else relevent to this issue. I've always hated the way the moo2 tech system worked w.r.t. creative/normal/uncreative. Normal let you see 3 techs but only have one of them. No going back and researching the others - why the...

I was a hardcore MOO2 player once ... I started playing without creative to make the game more interesting on SP Impossible. I was really talking about MP, i.e. those people who still play on Kali. Y'know, really, scarily hardcore :P. From what i remember, if you picked creative in MP you tended to...

an example from MoO2 would be creative. It's such a powerful ability that having it almost guarantees a win. Actually, the general concensus among hardcore moo2 players is that creative is a waste of race picks. Its much more effective to choose your techs wisely and spend the 8 race picks on other...

I've played three games so far. Two of them ended abruptly near the start (around turn 20-30) when the game hit the "processing after players turns..." screen, and just sat there doing that for 5 mins before I killed the thing (theres no way around it). Anyone else have this? Both games w...

But it has inertia, which Homeworld didn't have. I may be remembering incorrectly, but i couldve sworn HW had inertia. I certainly remember that if you hit a capital ship hard enough you could knock it backwards. Might not have been a complete inertia model though. But AFAIK it's not possible for y...

Is it too hard to select planets and fleets Actually, its nowhere near as easy and reliable as it could be. too hard to find blinking enemies No, but its far too easy to miss them. I shouldnt have spend most of my strategic game turn peering at the 3d map trying to see if any enemy fleets (or plane...

Zanzibar wrote:But it could be a game you like

Heh, well... so could any game if theyre willing to change enough of it

Eh, well... I guess some people "get" it, and others fail... Ah, so because we dont like it, we don't "get it". The fact that the product might not what we want from a game, and that we might be pointing out legitimate shortcomings is impossible - its all our fault. I guess we j...

So - a modern version of Master of Orion 1... is wrong?? Basicly this is how the game feels and plays... They just didn't put in the "fluff" victory conditions like diplomacy and tech... big deal... Umm... this is (IMHO) in no way a modern moo1. The only similarity that i can see is the w...

There are two types of visible in this game. Sensor visible - which is what your ships fire at - if you can see it on sensors (the black area with green grid) then you can fire. There is also Sight visible. This is solely in the game to make life hard on you the player - as in you can't center on a...